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Shark Tank Lessons for Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. 10 sec rule. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. We bring you a lowdown of lessons from Shark Tank: 1.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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Democratization of Angel Investing

Professor VC

I had a conversation recently with Alex Mittal, Co-founder and CEO of FundersClub (FC) and decided to revisit my blog post from last fall that was skeptical of crowdfunding for angel investments. I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC.

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Startup Resources

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.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues. Founders Workbench. aggregation. Co-founder.